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SUBMITTER: Skowronski DM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4280815 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Influenza and other respiratory viruses 20141110 1
This case series describes morbilliform and other rash presentations among schoolchildren during a March 2014 outbreak of influenza-like illness (ILI) in British Columbia, Canada. Multiplex nucleic acid testing of nasopharyngeal specimens and paired serologic investigations identified that influenza B, characterized as B/Massachusetts/02/2012-like (Yamagata-lineage), was the only viral aetiology and most likely cause of ILI and rash. An association between influenza B and rash has been described ...[more]